Microsoft is reportedly eyeing a $10 billion funding in OpenAI, the startup that created the viral chatbot ChatGPT, and is planning to combine it into Workplace merchandise and Bing search.

It is a huge deal. If profitable, it’s going to deliver highly effective AI instruments to the lots. So what would ChatGPT-powered Microsoft merchandise seem like? Whereas neither Microsoft or OpenAI had been prepared to reply our questions, we all know sufficient to make some knowledgeable, clever guesses. Trace: it’s most likely excellent news should you discover creating PowerPoint displays and answering emails boring. Learn the complete story.

—Melissa Heikkilä

Melissa’s story is from The Algorithm, her weekly AI e-newsletter. Join to obtain it in your inbox each Monday.

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1 China’s inhabitants has fallen for the primary time in 60 years
The information has main implications for the nation’s social, protection and financial insurance policies. (CNN)
+ China’s economic system is slumping. (Quartz)
+ India is about to take over because the world’s most populous nation. (Economist $)
+ Anti-covid zero demonstrators are nonetheless being detained. (Bloomberg $)

2 The primary invoice for Elon Musk’s Twitter buy is looming
How he offers with it’s one more main check of his management. (FT $)
+ We’re witnessing the mind dying of Twitter. (MIT Know-how Evaluation)

3 Getty Photographs is suing Steady Diffusion’s creators
Getty claims the software program was skilled utilizing thousands and thousands of unlawfully scraped photos. (The Verge)
+ Microsoft is including ChatGPT to its cloud service “quickly.” (Bloomberg $)

4 EV gross sales have handed a major milestone
They made up 10% of latest automobiles bought final yr. (WSJ $)
+ Tesla is slashing its costs—however not everybody’s blissful. (The Verge)

5 Tenant-screening algorithms reportedly discriminated in opposition to Black renters 
Now the US Division of Justice is getting concerned. (Wired $)
+ AI has exacerbated racial bias in housing. May it assist get rid of it as an alternative? (MIT Know-how Evaluation)

6 3D printed buildings might assist to resolve the US housing disaster
However there’s a serious barrier: the way in which the development trade works now. (New Yorker $)
+ Meet the designers printing homes out of salt and clay. (MIT Know-how Evaluation)

7 US tech companies are poaching expertise from Latin American startups
Native startups wrestle to match the salaries, that are nonetheless low by US requirements. (Remainder of World)

8 The agony and ecstasy of proudly owning a coveted Instagram deal with
You’d higher put together for individuals making an attempt to steal it. (Slate $)